Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

Short memory you have there.

It was McCain who goaded him into taking the trip in the first place.

Ranting on and on about how he hadn't been to Iraq and Afghanistan is so many months and hadn't met so and so leaders etc.
Obama taking him up on that was bad news for McCain.


An American politician, a Senator on the foreign relations committee, speaking in a foreign country about American values and how we all need to work together in the future is hardly presumptuous.
Republicans are just pissed off that McCain didn't think to do it first.